Did you get any solution for this? We're having the same problem with a
Dell Inspiron 1420 running Vista.

thanks.

(obviously read all the answers here and nothing helped so far).

Chip


"Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi, anyone else with this issue?
>
> Every now and then the Synaptics touchpad becomes "wildly off the
> mark"...I'd move it a little but the pointer goes way across the
> screen! Worse, it doesn't simply land in a regular manner such that I
> can recalibrate my own behavior in response to the sudden change in its
> behavior. No, I'd touch the pad again, and the pointer would "shiver"
> as if unsure whether I'd touched it, moved it, or which direction it's
> supposed to go, and how far...this weird business usually happens with
> the hard drive on a constant, steady whirl in the background, even
> though Task Manager reports only 2% of the CPU (early last year's 1.6
> Mobile Pentium, though I have 1GB of RAM).
>
> Basically, the touchpad behaves erratically, almost epileptically, like
> it's spazzin' out...this lasts for a few minutes, and then it's okay
> again....
>